From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

NAM News Network

Field	Value
name	NAM News Network
bgcolor
fgcolor
image	Nam logo.png
size
alt
caption	NAM News Network's logo
map
msize
malt
mcaption
abbreviation	NNN
predecessor	Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool
formation
type
status
purpose	News agency
headquarters	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Secretariat)
coords
language
general
leader_title
leader_name
main_organ
parent_organisation	Non-Aligned Movement
affiliations
website

The NAM News Network (NNN) is a news agency established by countries of the Non-Aligned Movement to disseminate news which are not prejudicial to the third-world countries. It is run by Bernama, the national news agency of Malaysia and funded by the Malaysian government.

Organisation and operations

The formation of the agency was requested by Malaysia and the decision was made during the Sixth Conference of Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (COMINAC VI) hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in November 2005. It planned to start in 2007. The agency was created after the earlier network, Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP), fell into disuse in the mid-1990s.

NAM News Network's stated mission is to promote information and news from a developing country perspective and to be "a valuable alternative for the Western news dominance", essentially revitalising Non-Aligned Movement's original intention with NANAP but now equipped with the technology of Internet. It was also set up as a working platform and central hub for accredited news organisations within NAM countries to publish and reuse content.

According to the agency's website, "the NNN sees itself as an alternative source of information rather than being in competition with other major news services. Essentially it would serve as a conduit for NAM member countries to tell their story and use it as a yet another tool of communication for them."

Secretariat

The agency's secretariat is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The national news agency Bernama serves as NNN's coordinating body.

References

(11 November 2005). "KL to fund non-aligned news network". The Straits Times.
(6 January 2006). "Non-Aligned Movement-Seychelles welcomes revamped news agency". [[Seychelles Nation]].
(2011). "Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media". [[SAGE Publications]].
Joye, Stijn. (2006). "Raising awareness, challenging establishment. The surplus value of a global and local alternative news agency". [[Academia Press]].
"About NAM NEWS NETWORK".

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

2005-establishments-in-malaysia multilingual-news-services non-aligned-movement organizations-established-in-2005 news-agencies-based-in-malaysia organisations-based-in-kuala-lumpur mass-media-in-kuala-lumpur

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about NAM News Network — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report